Love those white topped round tails!!!
SOmetimes the DMV does need explaining. A friend of mine just got a '76
Spit-he's puzzled because on the door plate, it says "Aug.'76"-but on the
registration it says '77.
Any thoughts?
Laura G. and Nigel
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>
To: Scions of the Spitfire <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, May 20, 1999 7:18 AM
Subject: Re: top [was interior] colors
>
>On Thu, 20 May 1999, Kirby T. Kenyon wrote:
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>> ...my car is listed with motor vehicles as being green / tan
>> but the soft top is black. Does anyone know if they offered a tan soft
top
>> (hood) in '80? The PO can't remember it ever having a tan top. I can't
>> imagine that the interior color would be listed as a body color for motor
>> vehicle purposes.
>
>I never heard of such a thing, either. But I also don't think there ever
>was a tan top offered (under normal circumstances) by the factory. Black
>was the "norm," although ISTR white tops might have been available at
>least on the early Mk.IV models. I know white tops were a bit more common
>on the older round-tail Spitfires.
>
>--Andy
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